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Larrymer posted:I'm in that majority. Same thing happened with BES at Bathurst last week. Don't know why I even tried. Because you improve if you keep driving?
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Lifting out of a corner might cost you a couple seconds on one lap. Not lifting out of a corner might cost you the race.
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Oct 11, 2016 17:34
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The Ring and Bathurst in any car is much like rookie miatas in that aspect. Don't crash --> decent finish
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Oct 11, 2016 17:34
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I went the last 5 minutes of the race never going above about 70mph and still finished 4th. Even crashing, if you crash gently enough to keep the car moving, you're going to be in a good spot. Don't need a tow.
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Oct 11, 2016 18:03
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Why the hell is the skippy running three laps on the nurnburgring this week? 
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Oct 11, 2016 18:16
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Larrymer posted:I think it would take me a full day of practicing the ring to be able to do it without loving up my car in the first half of the lap. I gave up on the gooncar race there and it'll probably be my drop week for the series. If you hold Shift+R after crashing you reset at the start of that sector. Helps with learning the second half of the track.
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Oct 11, 2016 18:20
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Sucks because it's an awesome track, but I am not an awesome driver.
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That's only in test and practice in case anyone was wondering.
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Oct 11, 2016 18:31
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When you don't make it past the first sector, it doesn't help. Yeah, I shouldn't treat every corner like qualifying. Probably.
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Oct 11, 2016 18:37
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Just drive slowly around the track to learn the corners. People like to say you can't learn all the corners because there are so many but that's wrong. You can learn lots of different race tracks and remember their corners, the ring is the same thing. Take it slowly and then speed up as you go along.
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Oct 11, 2016 18:46
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I've only got one speed. 0 mph, dead into a wall.
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Oct 11, 2016 18:55
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Cojawfee posted:Just drive slowly around the track to learn the corners. People like to say you can't learn all the corners because there are so many but that's wrong. You can learn lots of different race tracks and remember their corners, the ring is the same thing. Take it slowly and then speed up as you go along. Those people have brain damage.
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Oct 11, 2016 18:55
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Cojawfee posted:Just drive slowly around the track to learn the corners. People like to say you can't learn all the corners because there are so many but that's wrong. You can learn lots of different race tracks and remember their corners, the ring is the same thing. Take it slowly and then speed up as you go along. You can eventually but when there are 154 corners and you only drive each one once every 8 minutes you're not going to learn the track nearly as quickly or as in depth. I'm still just about at the stage of learning sectors with individual turns as landmarks where I know that "ok, this set of corners are all mid-speed, stick to third gear, then, when I get to the down hill left hander and the fast right and the next few are flat out EXCEPT for that right hander after the crest..." One day I will know the optimal line and speed through every corner 
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Oct 11, 2016 19:18
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Cojawfee posted:Just drive slowly around the track to learn the corners. People like to say you can't learn all the corners because there are so many but that's wrong. You can learn lots of different race tracks and remember their corners, the ring is the same thing. Take it slowly and then speed up as you go along. To be fair, with the Ring it's not like you need to know every corner to perfection, and when you boil it down like that you've got a lot fewer critical corners to worry about with "varying degrees of straightness" in between.  The section from Hohe Acht to Dottinger-Hohe is loads of fun in the Skippy.
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Oct 11, 2016 19:42
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I remember it being really fun to hotlap but kinda crappy to actually race because of the draft lock. I think all this talk about it has broken me down though, I'll have to try some laps when I get home.
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Oct 11, 2016 19:45
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It takes me a long time to memorize tracks, probably because I'm always high when I race. I feel like I have a decent handle on the first third or so of the Ring, after that I just drive carefully and pray.
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Oct 11, 2016 19:59
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IOwnCalculus posted:To be fair, with the Ring it's not like you need to know every corner to perfection, and when you boil it down like that you've got a lot fewer critical corners to worry about with "varying degrees of straightness" in between.
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Oct 11, 2016 20:05
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My weakest section is easily Adenauer Forst through Bergwerk, and the worst of that by far are those two endpoints. Everything in the middle I'm competent at, maybe a bit slow, but I cannot safely find speed in either Bergwerk or Adenauer... especially Adenauer. Once you get past Bergwerk, you maaaaaaybe lift a tiny bit in the Skippy at Mutkurve, but you can mostly keep it pinned all the way to Steilstrecke.
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Oct 11, 2016 20:17
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Bergwerk to Hohe Acht has only two corners that aren't flat out, what am I missing here 
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Oct 11, 2016 20:19
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Lord Crapulus posted:Bergwerk to Hohe Acht has only two corners that aren't flat out, what am I missing here There's only like what, 30 actual corners in the Skippy? The rest is just flat out or lift a little. vv We're literally looking at a map right now.
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Oct 11, 2016 20:21
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Haha, you guys can all say the corner names and realize where they are at, but you cannot drive them. Focus on the driving more.
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Oct 11, 2016 20:21
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I had to check the map, I am a Ring poser. Also that avatar is way too on the nose ohsh
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Oct 11, 2016 20:22
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Lord Crapulus posted:I had to check the map, I am a Ring poser. I could look at the map for 20 years and not know what corner is what.
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Oct 11, 2016 20:24
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I have the Ring pretty much memorised from the end of the straight to the first karussel. After that I got nothing.
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Oct 11, 2016 20:24
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Last time I did Gooncar at the Ring I binned it on 3 consecutive qual laps at Galgenkopf, even when I was 'taking it easy' the last time. I am very consistent.
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Oct 11, 2016 20:31
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Qualifying is lame here. Ran slightly wide after 2 minutes and whoops that's it for another hour.
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Oct 11, 2016 20:55
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Gah just missed breaking 8 mins in qual, Ring is still 
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Vando posted:Last time I did Gooncar at the Ring I binned it on 3 consecutive qual laps at Galgenkopf, even when I was 'taking it easy' the last time. I am very consistent. You just found your line
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Oct 11, 2016 23:40
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IOwnCalculus posted:To be fair, with the Ring it's not like you need to know every corner to perfection, and when you boil it down like that you've got a lot fewer critical corners to worry about with "varying degrees of straightness" in between. I bought the Ring and the Skippy and went out today, the only problem I had was poor turn in on Adenauer Forst and constantly running off into the grass in there. Also, second vote for Hohe Acht to Dottinger-Hohe being an absolute blast in the Skippy. The whole thing flows from one turn to the next and it's really just a beautiful time. You can absolutely take a powernap on the straight following Dottinger-Hohe though.
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Oct 12, 2016 02:09
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So apparently grass is slippery, I figured that one out all on my own 
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Oct 12, 2016 02:59
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- -:- -.- - - invalid, pitted, off track, black flag, contact, car contact, lost control, discontinuity, tow Yep, must be the Nordschleife.
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Oct 12, 2016 03:12
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:- -:- -.- - - invalid, pitted, off track, black flag, contact, car contact, lost control, discontinuity, tow So did you make it to sector three or did you manage to fit all of that before Flugplatz?
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The Science Goy posted:So did you make it to sector three or did you manage to fit all of that before Flugplatz? That sounds like me on the nordschleife.
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The Science Goy posted:So did you make it to sector three or did you manage to fit all of that before Flugplatz?
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That was all from the same thing; I went a tiny bit wide in Schwedenkreuz on the outside trying to make sure I didn't turn into the other guy, then the rears touched the grass and wheeeeeeee e: still got fastest lap though thank god
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Oct 12, 2016 03:54
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After advice here I decided to join a race and just go slow and see what happened. 4th place, lol. Still only like 8:31 or so but faster than a tow.
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Oct 12, 2016 18:24
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sure, rub it in e: Ring week is also like the only time I get excited about time trials, but dammit I'M EXCITED ABOUT MY TIME TRIAL Lord Crapulus fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Oct 12, 2016 |
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Oct 12, 2016 21:07
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TT optimal is under 8 minutes now, seemed to go a bit quicker once I changed SPO to 3 from 5, so could probably bring that down a bit more. Now I just need to manage a clean lap. And then I'm only 3.5 seconds slower than Crapulus..........
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Oct 16, 2016 21:53
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I used SPO -2 for the Ring, really trying to avoid bottoming out. Got the optimal into the 55's, but couldn't put it together and just started crashing from pushing too hard, so I'll have to settle. e: I had one goal for GoonCar: not crash into blk. Mission accomplished! ...since he wasn't there
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Oct 16, 2016 22:00
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Too busy putting his car on pole by 1.1 seconds and then blowing the motor.
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OhsH posted:Too busy putting his car on pole by 1.1 seconds and then blowing the motor. The iRacing website was loving up for me and wouldn't let me into gooncar but this sounds worse.
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